Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

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“Garbage in garbage out still holds in AI.” Truer words are rarely written.

Necessity is not the mother of invention-only of improvement. -Cyril Stanley Smith #STEM #Makered #makers #education #stemed

“A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.” - Dr. Benjamin Spock #play #teaching #learning

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. -Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
#Education #School #teaching #TeacherMyth #highschool #highered

Marshall McLuhan reminds us, “we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” #technology #socialmedia

If you have anxiety over #math, please do not tell your children and do not “help” them with #Homework. #parenting

You can “catch” stress, just like you can catch a cold.

Theories are right or wrong. Models can be right, but irrelevant. #science #DataScience

Egocentrism is grounded in the belief that everyone shares your beliefs and experiences. This characteristic disqualifies you from being an effective #educator #teachet #leader

Asserting a problem is solved helps avoid consuming disproportionate resources. #ResourceManagement #Efficiency Notice actually *solving* the problem is not a benefit.

Yes, some geniuses were ignored. If you are bing ignored, that does not mean you are a genius.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift

Um, yes, your instruments do determine the nature of your data. There is no such thing as an “objective survey.”

“Reality is not only stranger than we conceive,, but stranger than we can conceive.” J. B. Haldane.

Establishing competence is difficult. Establishing absence of competence even more difficult.

Seriously #educators. “Formative assessment.” “Summative assessment.” These terms are no longer meaningful... they are just part of the drone of buzz words. “Feedback” and “evaluations” have meaning. Yeah, and fewer syllables.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to
know one’s self.
—Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Improved Almanack (1750)

“Our brains continually search for discrepancies and seek to resolve them” and this is the foundation of #learning

Little of human interaction can be traced to a starting point. We all bring our history and contingencies with us always. To think one can start from a blank slate is to deny reality.